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Hey,
We are planning to build a trimaran USV as a team. We are thinking of using 2 cams. We are thought that using Jetson Nano Dev Kit would be good bcs there is so much data to process (it has an external gpu included so its powerful for image processing). Any chance for compatibility using an Ubuntu OS?
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Salih
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I am also looking at the jetson platform, but was hoping to get the xavier but it is just out of stock everywhere.
pypilot should run on ubuntu platform. As long as the gpio works and i2c and uart work, then pypilot should be supported. I cannot confirm it yet but if I ever get a jetson nano I could try it.
The next versions of pypilot will support image processing with cameras to enhance performance however the jetson nano is even a bit limited for video processing with training on the fly. It should be sufficient for inference, but what resolution it can process video and actually do learning is in question.
What is your plan for cameras? My thought is one camera that can see the sails and another camera that can look toward approaching waves.
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Good that u reminded. Even a Nano might be uncapable. We are preparing for an autonomy competition so probably a front camera to inspect obstacles and markers and the second camera might be a supportive camera to get a distance refference using a comparison method between the two images. Still Im not fully sure maybe a lidar or a radar will be a better pick in terms of distance measurement but we are a bit tight on the budget. maybe a third camera thats at the back of the ship just in case we need it.
btw the ship will be fully powered not sailed.